The Hostage
The Hostage by Susan Wiggs is $1.99! This is a historical romance and book one in the Great Chicago Fire Trilogy, so I’m sure you can take a guess at the book’s setting. I also believe there’s some kidnapping that happens. Readers have said that the romance is rather slow in the book, but others loved what Wiggs did with the setting. It has a 3.8-star rating on Goodreads. And, if you like Susan Wiggs, several of her other books are on sale, including At the King’s Command, which was my first review here at SBTB.
Deborah Sinclair is a beautiful, accomplished young heiress with a staggering dowry. But her fortune does her no good when, one horrible night, Chicago is engulfed in flames.
Tom Silver will walk through fire to avenge a terrible injustice—and he may have to. But when he makes Deborah a pawn in his revenge, the heat of the inferno fades next to the attraction he feels for his captive. And the further he takes her from everything she’s known, the stronger their passion grows, until it threatens to consume them both.
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Ms. Conception by Jen Cumming is $1.99! This is a women’s fiction about a couple dealing with fertility treatments. Readers say this book is equal parts funny and emotional. However, some found the rushed pacing to be a distraction. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
Abigail Nichols has tried everything from rash-inducing herbal creams to acupuncture in a desperate, last-ditch effort to get pregnant. Wedged into her iPhone schedule among new business pitches and rebranding design meetings is Abby’s ovulation cycle, along with potential opportunities for illicit afternoon quickies. With all of their hopes and savings on the table, Abby and her husband Jack enter the whispered world of fertility clinics.
Along with a meddling mother-in-law, competitive pregnancies, and constant obligatory sex, Abby’s baby-track mind conspires to ravage her career, her marriage, and her sanity. One thing she knows for sure: a healthy sense of humor (and the occasional glass of red wine) is the best coping strategy. One thing she wishes she knew: whether it will be enough. Ms. Conception is an honest but light-hearted novel inspired by the ups and downs of fertility treatments and the emotional burden that rests on those trying to conceive.
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The Trouble with Honor by Julia London is $1.99! This is the first book in her Cabot Sisters historical romance series. The heroine makes a deal with the hero for him to seduce her stepbrother’s bride-to-be and of course, they fall in love while he’s supposed to be wooing someone else. Readers loved the heroine, but felt the last quarter of the book didn’t fit with the rest.
Desperate times call for daring measures as Honor Cabot, the eldest stepdaughter of the wealthy Earl of Beckington, awaits her family’s ruin. Upon the earl’s death she and her sisters stand to lose the luxury of their grand home – and their place on the pedestal of society – to their stepbrother and his social-climbing fiancée. Forced to act quickly, Honor makes a devil’s bargain with the only rogue in London who can seduce her stepbrother’s fiancée out of the Cabots’ lives for good.
An illegitimate son of a duke, George Easton was born of scandal and grows his fortune through dangerous risks. But now he and Honor are dabbling in a perilous dance of seduction that puts her reputation and his jaded heart on the line. And as unexpected desire threatens to change the rules of their secret game, the stakes may become too high even for a notorious gambler and a determined, free-spirited debutante to handle.
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Barefoot Season by Susan Mallery is $1.99! This is the first book in her Blackberry Island series. This particular book is more along the lines of women’s fiction with two childhood friends trying to save their small town’s inn. Readers who like stories about close friendships recommend this and one of the heroines is a veteran who suffers from PTSD.
Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside, she’s still the wounded girl who fled home years ago. A young army vet, Michelle returns to the quaint Blackberry Island Inn to claim her inheritance and recover from the perils of war. Instead, she finds the owner’s suite occupied by the last person she wants to see.
Carly Williams and Michelle were once inseparable, until a shocking betrayal destroyed their friendship. And now Carly is implicated in the financial disaster lurking behind the inn’s cheerful veneer.
Single mother Carly has weathered rumors, lies and secrets for a lifetime, and is finally starting to move forward with love and life. But if the Blackberry Island Inn goes under, Carly and her daughter will go with it.
To save their livelihoods, Carly and Michelle will undertake a turbulent truce. It’ll take more than a successful season to move beyond their devastating past, but with a little luck and a beautiful summer, they may just rediscover the friendship of a lifetime.
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Why put a very pregnant belly on a book dealing with infertility? To make sure the reader knows there is a happy ending? Because you seen pregnant people everywhere as soon as one is trying to conceive anyway? I am glad this is a topic being addressed (we are dealing with secondary infertility so it is close to my heart) but the cover design could maybe have been chosen more delicately.
You ask good questions, Mona – I’m with you. That’s a confusing and odd choice of image for the cover.
Weird, my first glance at the Ms. Conception cover didn’t look like a pregnant belly to me–I absolutely though it was a side you of someone’s rear end!
Sorry, “side view”
@Maria – Me too!!! My inner 13 year old boy had a good laugh at the author’s name as well.
That’s a pregnant belly? I’m with Maria, I totally thought that was someone’s rear end and was puzzled why there wasn’t even a little bit of snark in the write-up. Makes more sense if that’s a belly. Either way, not a well done cover.
Yep, I too thought that was someone’s ass and I was like, wow that’s a very audacious cover.
I thought it was a butt, and kind of funny because of the shots one might take in order to get pregnant. It is a round Rorschach test@!
Did anyone think it was a belly? I was having flashbacks to Jessica Chastain in _Jolene_ telling her husband “I don’t like it there” and discussing being pregnant in the next scene.